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Reading Strategy

Reading Strategy. Making Connections : A Bridge From the New to the Known. Why. do we teach students to make. connections?. By making connections to text, students can activate their prior knowledge (including experiences and emotions), or schema .

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Reading Strategy

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  1. Reading Strategy Making Connections :A Bridge From the New to the Known

  2. Why do we teach students to make connections? • By making connections to text,students can activate their priorknowledge (including experiences and emotions), or schema. • Prior knowledge or schema is important to students’ reading comprehend.

  3. Why do we teach students to make connections? • Good readers always draw on prior knowledge and experience to help them understand what they are reading. • Research shows students who are explicitly taught how to use strategies to activate prior knowledge when they read can comprehend better. (Harvey & Goudvis, 2000)

  4. to teach? What • According to Keene and Zimmerman (1997), students comprehend better when they make the following connections: • Text-to-self • Text-to-text • Text-to-world

  5. What to teach? • Text-to-self: making connection between a text and their own experience or life • Text-to-text: making connection between a text and another text that has been read previously • Text-to-world: making connection between what they read and what they learn about things through television, movies, magazines and newspapers. • Text-to-self Text-to-text Text-to-world

  6. What Text-to-self questions can help students make connections? • What does this remind me of in my life? • What is this similar to in my life? • How is this different from my life? • Has something like this ever happened to me? • How does this relate to my life? • What were my feelings when I read this?

  7. Text-to-text • What does this remind me of in another text I have read? • What is this similar to other text I have read? • How is this different from other text I have read? • Have I read about something like this before?

  8. Text-to-world • What does this remind me of in the real world? • What is this similar to things that happen in the real world? • How is this different from things that happen in the real world?

  9. Teaching Demonstration: Text-to-self connection What is the text about? A) Hong Kong people’s habit of using disposable things B) The causes of the waste problem & its effects on the environment in HK What is the message intended by the writer? A) We should not buy things with packaging and use plastic bags B) We need to take action to make HK green and conserve the environment Make connection between the text to ourselves Is this text related to us? How?

  10. Text-to-self connection: thinking about similar or different things between a piece of reading material and our own experience or life

  11. The text about the waste problem Yourself

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  15. Inside the classroomTeaching Procedures 1. Introduce the idea that we can activate what we already know (prior knowledge) to understand more about what we are reading 2. Tell students they can do it by making connections between themselves and what they read 3. Read a text with students

  16. Inside the classroom How to teach this strategy? 4. Show students an organizer with questions that help make connections 5. Model how to make connections 6. Encourage students to make connections by using their personal experience

  17. Inside the classroomto teach this strategy? How 7. Use prompts to help students to make connections • This part reminds me of....If that happened to me I would....This book reminds me of...(another text) because....I can relate to...(part of text) because one time....Something similar happened to me when.... 8. Allow time for sharing. 9. Students should continue to practice the strategy as necessary.

  18. An important point to note • Text connections should lead to text comprehension. • Intervention is needed to prevent students from being distracted from the text Resources consulted: http://www.educationoasis.com http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/forpd/about/

  19. Making Connections Cue Card make sense of the text by using their prior knowledge better understand and digest what they read

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